Thursday 13th April, 2023 Government politicians are blindly supporting the proposed anti-terrorism Bill (ATB), which has been put on hold. It is doubtful whether most of them have ever seen the ATB, much less read it. But Foreign Minister and former Justice Minister Ali Sabry, a senior lawyer, has struck a slight discordant note. He […]
Friday 7th April, 2023 Sri Lankan politicians apparently specialise in making bad laws, which are legion, prominent among them being the PTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act). Amidst heavy fire from various quarters, the government has decided to bite the bullet and defer the presentation of its controversial Anti-terrorism Bill (ATB) to Parliament. Justice Minister Dr. […]
Thursday 6th April, 2023 The Catholic Church has challenged the veracity of a claim by the police that Pulasthini Mahendran alias Sara Jasmine, wife of Muhammadu Muhammadu Hasthun, who carried out a suicide bomb attack on St. Sebastian’s Church, Katuwapitiya, on 21 April 2019, is dead. The police say a third DNA test has revealed […]
Senerath or Sene, as he was affectionately called, passed away on January 7 plunging his near and dear and a host of his friends and associates into a pool of tears and agony. According to his wife in whose arms he breathed his last, death was instantaneous. True, he had a few health issues which […]
The Aragalaya has moved into a ‘gal keliya situation. The Aragala protesters were never throwing stones. But there is a new spread of stone throwers, legal and political stones, mainly targeting the Aragala activists. These are by political strikers carrying stones targeting the Aragala activists and key supporters to push them to remand prisons and […]